Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian (Sicily) : from a reduced form of the Slavic personal name Stanislao (see Stanislaw).
  • Italian (Stanò) : habitational name from either of two places so named in Cosenza and Reggio di Calabria.
  • Czech and Slovak : from a pet form of the personal name Stanislav (see Stanislaw).

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